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	<h2 class="center">OS3Grid - Grid for Web Sites</h2>
	<h4 class="center">By Fabio Rotondo - fsoft (@) sourceforge ( dot ) net</h4>
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	<div class="menu_title">Why making a donation</div>
	There are some good reasons you should consider about making a donation for this project. 
	In the next sections, I'll try to explain them to you, so you can valuate if it is a good idea or not
	to give some money for this.
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	<div class="menu_title">1. Free as in Freedom</div>
	The <em>OS3Grid</em> is released under <a href="license.html">LGPL</a> license. This license makes the software
	available to everyone for free (as in <em>free beer</em>) and you can use it for commercial or open source projects,
	without any restriction (the <em>freedom</em> above).<br />
	Of course, the creation of this software has taken some time, and its maintenance will take even more.
	All the time we use for enhance <em>OS3Grid</em> is time you save on your own projects.<br />
	Consider all the time you have saved by simply download the source file and try to give it a price: this is the
	amount of money you should consider sending us to continue our good work.
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	<div class="menu_title">2. Good documentation</div>
	We just do not provide <em>OS3Grid</em> by itself: we are also trying to create some decent documentation for it, so 
	you can save even more time, without having to fiddle with settings or scan the source code. As you may know, writing
	good docs takes time. Documentation is the first thing we'll leave behind if we will not have enough resources to
	continue <em>OS3Grid</em> development: you'll have new features but you probably will have to find them out by yourself.
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	<div class="menu_title">3. No free alternatives</div>
	We were not able to find any other free alternative to <em>OS3Grid</em> around. There is some good freeware software, 
	some demo software and so on, but no free as in freedom DHTML grids around.<br />
	Just google around and you'll see it by yourself: all availabe alternatives are expensive, while <em>OS3Grid</em> is free.
	Doesn't this deserve a gift?
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	<div class="menu_title">4. Can be used in proprietary works</div>
	The <a href="license.html">LGPL</a> license authorizes you to use this piece of code even inside commercial (not open source)
	projects. So you can use this software without giving away your own (precious?) source code.<br />
	Doesn't this deserve a gift?
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	<div class="menu_title">5. Make this project evolve</div>
	I am getting a lot of emails, asking me to add this or that feature to <em>OS3Grid</em>. Some of these features are
	very time consuming and I didn't design my Grid to have them in the first place: mainly because my own projects involving
	<em>OS3Grid</em> didn't require those requested features.<br />
	Some of the requests I am getting are actually good ideas that I'll try to implement in the future (although I am not
	promising anything to anyone), but others (still being quite good ideas) are very time consuming and may require some
	<em>OS3Grid</em> refactoring to be implemented in a good and clean way.<br />
	So, if you want to see this project going on and evolve during time, please consider making a donation for my time
	and experience.
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	<div class="menu_title">6. Improve Internet Explorer compatibility</div>
	One of the biggest problems I am encountering is having <em>OS3Grid</em> behave correctly under the allmighty bugged
	Internet Explorer (I call it Internet ExploDER ;-) ).<br />
	I develop <em>OS3Grid</em> using <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com" target="_blank">Mozilla Firefox</a> because 
	I am a Linux user and I do not have Windows. I try to make the Grid as much W3C-Compliant as possible but then
	I receive some mails telling me, for example, that <em>OS3Grid</em> behaves poorly on large datasets under Exploder.
	I had a nightmare time having column resizing work under Internet Exploder.<br />
	Since <strong>I do not have Windows</strong> installed on my machine, I have to rely on someone's else PC to test my
	Grid under Internet Exploder and this requires much more time.<br />
	So, if you want to see <em>OS3Grid</em> to mantain the same compatibility and feature rich interface even under IE, 
	please consider making a donation.
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	I don't know if these reasons sound good to you, but if they do, please click the link below to donate some money to
	the project. Any amount will be fine. <br />
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	Thank you.
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